What if the some of the major conferences went to 16 teams and two 8-team divisions? 7 games against everyone else in your division, then one crossover game according to finish in the standings (including 1st place in each division for the conference championship game). What might the conference shakeout be? Let's find out...

There are some unresolved issues, such as what to do with Sun Belt's non-football teams (maybe they could keep the Sun Belt name and add non-football schools). Also, there would be a chain reaction after the Big East expands in basketball as well. But, focusing on just I-A football I think these conferences could work. That SEC East and Big Ten East might be the two toughest divisions out there!

The schools are neatly arranged - nice job. BUT, if you have only one crossover game why bother to have a conference? Half the students would go through LSU without experiencing a game with Auburn, for instance, and 3/4 at Minnesota would miss a home game for the Little Brown Jug.

By having the conference you get the benefits of having a conference championship game. Some rivalries would unfortunately be split though... perhaps you could have 2 crossovers and still have a championship game on top of that (champion and runner-up would play 10 conference games), that way you would play teams in the other division every 4 years.

I had an alternate version of this where the Big East goes to 12 football members and a championship game. That would look like this:

Everything else the same as above. The problem with this one is that Tennessee and Kentucky would probably never leave the SEC for the Big East, nor would BC go back there. This also depends on a Big East split, which still isn't a given to actually happen.

What if the some of the major conferences went to 16 teams and two 8-team divisions? 7 games against everyone else in your division, then one crossover game according to finish in the standings (including 1st place in each division for the conference championship game). What might the conference shakeout be? Let's find out...

There are some unresolved issues, such as what to do with Sun Belt's non-football teams (maybe they could keep the Sun Belt name and add non-football schools). Also, there would be a chain reaction after the Big East expands in basketball as well. But, focusing on just I-A football I think these conferences could work. That SEC East and Big Ten East might be the two toughest divisions out there!

Any thoughts?

How about adding Houston and UTEP to the BIG XII. New Mexico st to the WAC.

South Florida switch with Memphis. Florida wants UCF and South Florida together to create another huge rivally.

UTEP and Houston could definitely work in the Big XII, and if that's where they went I don't think the Southwest would consider NM State an important addition.

I just can't see Memphis in the Big Ten. Another possibility to throw around would be switching South Florida to the SEC and Kentucky to the Big Ten (to go with Louisville). After looking at that SEC East, Vanderbilt might have to withdraw after pondering the thought of playing Tenn, S Fla, Fla, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, and So Carolina every year. Then you could replace Vanderbilt in the SEC East w/Central Florida and Vandy to C-USA.

I could see USA and Georgia Southern in the C-USA provided they are willing to move up. Same thing with UT-SA, Lamar, and Texas State. Are any of them serious about moving up once the moratorium expires?

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